Ralph E. Lane (1911-1962) was a statistician and professor at the University
of Texas at Austin. From 1933 to 1947 Lane worked for Flitcraft Inc., first
as a statistician and then vice president. Lane received his Ph.D. from the
University of Texas at Austin in 1950 and continued to teach at the University
where he remained until his death in 1962.

This collection documents the research and teaching of Ralph E. Lane
at the University of Texas at Austin Department of Mathematics and
Military Physics Research Laboratory. The papers consist of manuscripts,
technical reports, and teaching notes reflecting Lane's interest in
integration, probability and statistics, linear operators, and number theory.